sidewinder

Another one month lockdown announced here, with the exception of education establishments. Time to get a haircut.. Local rates very low still - thankfully. Apparently the demographic in the UK seeing the most increases in hospitalisation is not the oldies but females in age range 20-40 !

Mole Jazz at their peak and on a roll when that one was reissued by them.

CDs 1 and 2 -first spins for a fair while.

Last time I saw her was in a ‘sideman’ role. On trumpet... and harmonium !

CDs 3 to 6. Superlative !

Never saw any of those NY cutouts. The best I could find was $0.5 Cdn Applause LPs..

Forgot to mention the Brecker Brothers as well. Playing bebop ! I think James Moody was also on the bill. Possibly also Milt Jackson but not sure. There was also a UK rhythm section. Updated - Just found the JJI review. No Milt and Moody but Clark Terry and Kai Winding were included (Kai duetting with Curtis). The UK rhythm section was John Critchinson, Ron Mathewson and Martin Drew i.e. the Ronnie’s house team of that time. The RFH venue was last minute. It was originally scheduled for Ally Pally, which burnt down a few days before !

Interesting ! I only got to hear his solo rendition of ‘Over The Rainbow’ at that George Wein ‘Year of the Bird’ concert but it was memorable. The rest of the lineup - Gillespie, John Lewis, Freddie Hubbard, John Lewis, Lee Konitz, Slam Stewart, Roy Haynes, Curtis Fuller - and those are just the ones I remember !

Thanks to djcavanagh

RIP - an incredibly long life.

I remember that ‘Lulu’ show on TV. Might well have sat through the Hendrix appearance without registering its significance !

Dig the ‘window boxes’.. I will always regret the fact that I missed that gig, although I did see his appearance afterwards at RFH, which was memorable. Can’t recall why I missed it !

Awesome !

Doesn’t seem so long ago that used jazz LPs were £5 or £6 a pop. The good old days..

Ditto ! Hopefully not wall mounted in that orientation !

Many thanks for that. I’ll probably stick with Spotify, as it’s available there. Sounds like a good gig - hadn’t heard it before.

1968 black label issue

Any thoughts on the sonics for ‘The Squirrel’?

Updated to say that I am enjoying the sound of this one. A good release. It will be interesting to cross-check against Mosaic’s treatment. Certainly trounces the CD set on the sonic front.

Got oodles of ‘em ! One other very good thing around that time of the EMI ‘relaunch’ was that the new Blue Note hosted an all-star reunion concert in NYC which was filmed and recorded. Guest of honour was Alfred Lion and many of the greats played (fortunately, many were still musically active at that time). Heck, even Hank made a (non playing) appearance.

The Sonny is typical Prestige soul jazz of the era, driven by Idris’s backbeats. Good stuff !

I bought dozens and dozens of those DMMs and yes, they were readily available. Lots of BN titles were not issued in that series though - e.g. hardly any Andrew Hill or Sam Rivers, which wasn’t addressed until the CD era. Agree that with this series the Blue Note catalogue got much more readily available in the UK. I think the first ones I saw were at the shop in the RFH, when I snagged ‘Inner Urge’ after attending a Miles concert. The other memory of that gig is that I parked my car right outside RFH with free meter parking. The Pathe Marconis (which were the ones I bought) were DMM. Yes, ‘Our Price’ used to stock them. £5.50 or thereabouts ! Some good titles made an appearance - ‘Hi Voltage’, ‘The Rajah’, ‘More Workout’ come to mind.

Blue Notes were most categorically NOT crowding the bins in the mid 70s - their presence in that George Butler era was largely limited to Donald Byrd’s fusion stuff etc.plus the very late stuff by Horace Silver, which got a lukewarm response. Only In 1977/78 with the UA reissue series did the profile raise, with classics such as ‘The Sidewinder’ and the Bud Powells Vol 1 and 2 et al at last getable in WH Smith’s etc. The Japanese imports from King and Toshiba also ramped up around that time - sold by Mole etc. The floodgates really opened around 1989/90 with those first longbox CD reissues.

Purple label. Stitt on Varitone. I think only ‘The Squirrel’ of those Dexter’s was available over here. Even that wasn’t on offer at my usual outlet. On the other hand, they did have 2 copies of ‘Stonebone’.

Nothing new here that isn’t on the 4CD set. Nice, crisp sound though - as good as I have heard this material. Funky red vinyl. Having said that, one of the disks has a slight chip, poor QC.